Steven Levy


STEVEN LEVY, a Senior Editor for Newsweek, has covered the information revolution since 1981, focusing not merely on technology but people, issues and culture. His articles, opinion pieces and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Harper's, Premiere, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In addition, he has been an editor for the Whole Earth Software Catalog, a regular columnist for Rolling Stone and Macworld, and an original contributing writer for Wired.

He is the author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution; Insanely Great: The Life and Times of MacIntosh, the Computer That Changed Everything; The Unicorn's Secret: A Murder in the Age of Aquarius; Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology; and Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age